Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s IQ Test (Actually Given To Congregation)
Little Green Footballs pointed me in this direction today. This was an actual handout from the good Rev Wright on 2/23/03, just as we were preparing for OIF.
War on Iraq IQ Test
REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT / Trinity Pastor’s Page 23feb03
Take the War on Iraq IQ Test
Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq?
1. Q: What percentage of the world’s population does the U.S. have?
A: 6% [correction - 4.8% of world’s population - 6.2 billion vs. 280 million]
2. Q: What percentage of the world’s wealth does the U.S. have?
A: 50% [correction - 22% of global GDP]
3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves?
A: Saudi Arabia
4. Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves?
A: Iraq
5. Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide?
A: $900+ billion
6. Q: How much of this is spent by the U.S.?
A: 50% [explanation - military expenditures for FY2003 may be $460-470 billion including $378.5 billion for the Pentagon, $15.4 billion for nuclear weapons programs, $3.8 billion for foreign military assistance, $1.4 billion for military-related activities of other agencies, $32 billion for military retirement benefits and health care for current employees, $30 billion for the CIA, plus funding for the Homeland Security Department]
7. Q: What percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world, according the UN?
A: 10% (that’s about $40 billion, the amount of funding initially requested to fund our retaliatory attack on Afghanistan)
8. Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II?
A: 86 million
9. Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons?
A: Since the early 1980’s.
10. Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical & biological weapons on their own?
A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the US government, along with Britain and private corporations.
11. Q: Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran?
A: No
12. Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988?
A: 5,000
13. Q: How many western countries condemned this action at the time?
A: 0
14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange did America use in Vietnam?
A: 17 million.
15. Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and September 11th terrorist attack?
A: No
16. Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War?
A: 35,000
17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western forces during the Gulf War ?
A: 0
18. Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U. S. tanks with ploughs mounted on the front?
A: 6,000
19. Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War?
A: 40 tons
20. Q: What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994?
A: 700%
21. Q: How much of Iraq’s military capacity did America claim it had destroyed in 1991?
A: 80%
22. Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use its weapons for anything other than deterrence and self-defense?
A: No
23. Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years ago?
A: No
24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on Iraq in 2003? A: 10,000
25. Q: What percentage of these will be children? A: Over 50%
26. Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq? A: 11 years
27. Q: Were the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999?
A: No
28. Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999?
A: 20 million
29. Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq’s imports and exports?
A: 12 years
30. Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 38
31. Q: What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 131 (that’s an increase of 345%)
32. Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions?
A: 1.5 million
33. Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997?
A: 750,000
34. Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq?
A: No
35. Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998?
A:300
36. Q: How many of these inspections had problems?
A:5
37. Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba’ath Party HQ?
A: Yes
38. Q: Who said that by December 1998, Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to a level unprecedented in modern history.
A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief.
39. Q: In 1998 how much of Iraq’s post 1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction did the UN weapons inspectors claim to have discovered and dismantled?
A: 90%
40. Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons inspectors back in?
A: Yes
41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992?
A: Over 65
42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990?
A: 30+
43. Q: How much does the U.S. fund Israel a year?
A:$5 billion
44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons?
A: 8
45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got?
A: 0
46. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got?
A: over 10,000
47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
A: the US
48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
A: Over 400
49. Q: Has Israel every allowed UN weapon inspections?
A: No
50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by Israeli settlements?
A: 42%
51. Q: Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land?
A: Yes
52. Q: Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?
A: ????
53. Q: Who said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”?
A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Members of Trinity are asked to think about these things and be prayerful as we sift through the “hype” being poured on by the George Bush-controlled media.
Rev Jeremiah A Wright, Jr.
War on Iraq IQ Test - written by: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, placed the following ‘War on Iraq IQ Test’ on the Trinity “Pastor’s Page” for Sunday, Feb. 23.
Be respectful of others and their opinions. Inflammatory remarks and inane leftist drivel will be deleted. It ain’t about free speech, remember you’re in a private domain. My website, my prerogative.
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Just another brain dead socialist and his followers. And we got them in our brights.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pmJust when I didn’t think it couldn’t get more “out there”, they dish up…
“…the “hype” being poured on by the George Bush-controlled media.”
Bush controls the media? What a crafty bastard - he really had me fooled! Here I thought they hated his guts.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
WTF was that?
March 17th, 2008 at 4:43 pmHonestly this information is fine, WHEN weighed with other information. Like the amount of Aid given to the country that was squandered with oil for food by the Europeans, U.N., and Saddam. Even if given in proper context like why we used agent orange in Vietnam, and why we don’t now! Even the simple admission that we provide millions with free health care services around the world with billions in aid, vs the limited giving of the Euros.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:56 pmRev Jeremiah A Wright, Jr.’s 53 Commandments
This isn’t a “church” or “religion” …
It’s a political party with it’s own Howard Dean, scream included.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:47 pmIsn’t it about time that the IRS began taking a look at the books of this “church”?
March 17th, 2008 at 6:07 pmThe guy is a racist asshole, same as David Duke or Robert Byrd.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:55 pmMaybe Wright is suffering from an identity crisis. Is it me, or does he not look like some old white guy?
March 18th, 2008 at 2:48 amnow come on people, we’re taking all this out of context. we’ve reduced the great rev. to a mere soundbite.he’s not antiamerican hes a great american and we got him all wrong.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:27 am(just kidding). the proverbial can of worms has been opened. not just for BO but for black america? racism is alive and breeding in the back congregation. one step forward, 2 steps back
Reparations anyone?
March 18th, 2008 at 4:43 amIs this a cult?
March 18th, 2008 at 4:48 amThe only problem with this post (and the post on LGF) is that Wright didn’t write this “War on Iraq IQ Test” … it’s an email chain letter, and it dates back to 2003.
I sent this to charles yesterday, with no apparent response.
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/ …on_Iraq_IQ_Test
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LGF reader mcs emailed a link to yet another disturbing rant by
Jeremiah Wright, this time in writing: The War on Iraq IQ Test.
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Unfortunately, your reader apparently did not parse the page correctly,
or he might have noticed the inline corrections by Jeremiah Wright,
implying a different original author. While this HTML page was “posted”
by Jeremiah Wright, it was not actually written by him.
I know, because I received it as a chain letter in email just before the Iraq war began in 2003. ”
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:58:22 -0800
Subject: War on Iraq IQ Test
…
Charles Sheketoff, Executive Director Oregon Center for Public Policy
PO Box 7, Silverton, OR 97381 will vouch for the research that
supports the facts contained here. Use and circulate this widely. -
Daniel Quinn
A GREAT IQ TEST ON THE IRAQ WAR FROM DANIEL QUINN, THE AUTHOR OF
ISHMAEL ETC.
”
Notice that it uses the name of author Daniel Quinn to promote the
test, but Daniel Quinn’s site :
http://www.ishmael.org/
Has nothing about it, a common mark of joe-jobbing chain letter spam.
Also, the blurb credits “Charles Sheketoff” as the source, which seems
plausible as “Charles Sheketoff” runs an anti-war non-profit.
It seems like you could have saved yourself a correction if you had
googled the text without running with it as a rant by Wright…
Obviously, he re-posted and endorses it. But he didn’t write it.
Best,
=darwin
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As he has not responded, or posted a correction, I figured people in your position (repeating the error by linking to his post) might want to know about it.
=darwin
March 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pmEvery one has the right to say what they want just because it isnt to “YOUR LIKING” you wanna criticize and judge we’ve turned cold face so many times to actions and words of churches in this world but i guess since old rev is affiliated with a candidate we pay attention to him. Justlike any other pastor that delivers a sermon they can say what ever you dont like it tough dont listen how is it affecting you personally? Lash out and get mad all you want to but everyone has a right to their own opinions and facts and however they state it it’s their business “why are you mad” This too shall pass as soon as someone else says something you dont like. If you arent out helping to contribute to the healing of america then you’re still apart of the problem so your comments just like mine MEANS NOTHING.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:01 pm